Cloudflare Radar redesigned: map first, outages on top, tabs not tiles

Serguey Asael Shinder09 October 2026, 07:432 min read

Cloudflare published the reasoning behind a redesign of Radar, its public dashboard of Internet traffic, outages and attacks, on 8 October. The change is aimed at people who are not network engineers — journalists, human-rights researchers, policymakers — without dropping the depth that existing users rely on.

What was wrong. By Cloudflare's own account the old landing page showed the breadth of data but was hard to read: a "bento box" grid gave every widget the same visual weight, vertical cards broke the reading order, and the styling did not look like the rest of Cloudflare. One outside user told the team the page was hard to show to his students.

What changed.

• A map comes first. The top of the page now leads with outages, described as the most concrete and timely signal about the state of the Internet, and with traffic, which shows the scale of the data. The map is also the way into country pages and data stories below it.
• Tabs replace the tiles. The old chart widgets became a tabbed flow with summary statistics and a link to explore each area in depth, so the page has a hierarchy instead of a wall of equal boxes.
• Product components, not one-off pages. Radar now sits on Kumo, the component system of Cloudflare's product dashboards. The team describes Radar as a cross between marketing page, documentation and product, and chose the product components so it stays maintainable.

The authors are candid about the dead ends: early map versions were too dense, later ones looked like marketing and made live data feel static; the shipped version sits between the two.

Why it is worth a look. Cloudflare says it sits in front of roughly 20% of web traffic, which makes Radar one of the few free, public views of outages by country and network. For anyone writing incident reports or checking whether "the Internet is down" or only their provider, a page that puts outages above everything else is the practical change. Feedback goes to radar@cloudflare.com.

Source: Cloudflare Blog, "Bridging technical depth and usability: The story behind Radar's redesign", 8 October 2026 — https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-redesign